Settlement and Colonization
What is a presidio?
Spanish fort
Includes the Panhandle, Edwards Plateau, Llano Estacado, Amarillo, and Palo Duro Canyon state park?
Great Plains region
They founded the cities of New Braunfels, Fredericksburg and Schulenburg?
German immigrants
TEA - what does it stand for?
Texas Education Agency
Texas is the ____ most populated state in the U.S.
2nd
Spanish community that was established as a half way point between the Rio Grande and East Texas missions?
San Antonio
Nearly level, drained plain dissected by streams and rivers?
Gulf Coastal Plains
This group brought numerous European crops to the area and gave birth to ranching in Texas?
Spanish
serves as the head of TEA
Commissioner of Education
Stephen Austin, Green DeWitt, Martin De Leon and John McMullen were all successful _____________
empresarios (land agents)
note: Matin De Leon was the only successful Mexican empresario
The name for a "land agent" used by the Mexican government to colonize Texas?
empresario
Includes 7 peaks in elevation greater than 8000 feet. Includes Big Bend National Park and Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
Basin and Range Province (Mountains and Basins)
Central Texas counties of Austin, Fayette and Lavaca were settled mostly by this immigrant group?
Czechs
TEA's governing body
State Board of Education
In what part of Texas will you find Texas's logging/timber industry?
North
South
East
West
The Piney Woods of East Texas
The Mier y Teran report which said Anglos outnumbered Mexicans in Texas 10 to 1, led to this action by the Mexican government?
Law of April 6, 1830 (no more immigration into Texas by settlers located in the U.S.)
Contains the cities of Abilene and Fort Worth. Economic activities include oil, natural gas, cattle ranching, sheep and goats.
North Central Plains
The City of San Antonio is one of the oldest ___________ colonization of the European settlements in Texas.
Spanish
Present Governor of Texas
Honorable Greg Abbott
The Spanish ____________ was a frontier institution that sought to incorporate indigenous people into the Spanish colonial empire, its Catholic religion, and certain aspects of its Hispanic culture.
mission
Father of the Rio Grande Valley
Jose de Escandon
The higher elevations of Texas are in the ______. Rivers flow from ______ to ______.
west
west to east
Give the Spanish influence on Texas for the following:
hat =
religion =
river that divides Texas and Mexico =
cowhand =
sombrero
Roman Catholic
Rio Grande
vaquero
Present Lt. Governor of Texas
Honorable Dan Patrick
Earliest Spanish mission founded in East Texas
San Francisco de los Tejas